Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-01-16

Chapter 8. General Libraries

libgpg-error-1.10

Introduction to libgpg-error

The libgpg-error package contains a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt, Libksba, DirMngr, Pinentry, SmartCard Daemon and more.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Package Information

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgpg-error

Installation of libgpg-error

Install libgpg-error by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m644 -D README /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.10/README

Contents

Installed Programs: gpg-error and gpg-error-config
Installed Library: libgpg-error.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/common-lisp and /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.10

Short Descriptions

gpg-error

is used to determine libgpg-error error codes.

gpg-error-config

is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the libgpg-error library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the libgpg-error library.

liblibgpg-error.{so,a}

contains the libgpg-error API functions.

Last updated on 2011-11-10 00:14:36 +0000